Veterans Affairs health care worker says she received a letter from the agency notifying her that she would be terminated—just one day before she was scheduled to testify at a congressional hearing about how the VA treats other whistleblowers.
A Department of Veterans Affairs health care worker said she received a letter from the agency on Monday notifying her that she would be terminated, just one day before she was scheduled to testify at a congressional hearing about how the VA treats other whistleblowers.
"The notice of proposed removal was issued immediately after the Agency learned that Dr. Aghevli's disclosures would be the subject of a front-page story in USA Today and that she would be testifying before Congress," her legal team wrote in the letter to OSC. Aghevli, who served as the former coordinator of the department's opioid-addiction treatment program in Baltimore, said hospital officials cited in the letter an ongoing matter with a patient's follow-up care and gave her several business days to respond.
Aghevli called the termination proposal scary because it appears to be a warning shot to ward off other potential whistleblowers. She said she doesn't know, for sure, if there was a"threat to other staff, but that's a little bit what it feels like." "In order to reduce the waitlist, I was instructed to improperly remove veterans from the electronic waitlist by scheduling fake appointments for them in an imaginary clinic," Aghevli said in remarks she prepared to share with Congress on Tuesday."This clinic was not tied to any provider or location, nor did it actually correspond to any real visits and accordingly. The veterans scheduled for these fictitious appointments were not actually receiving VA care.
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